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...janitorial workers are employed, have seen their earnings advance in parallel. Over the past three years, the median household income in the city has grown nearly 3%, from $39,643 to $40,699, adjusted for inflation. And annual janitorial-job turnover, as high as 300% in Cincinnati, is just one-tenth that rate in Pittsburgh. As a result, contractors' costs for recruitment and training are significantly lower. "For a community and its families, wage gains for low-income workers mean the difference between living precariously at the edge of the economy and having a stake in the American Dream," says...
...Calligaris furnishing collection, sold under the slogan "Italian Living," last year included sofas and beds for the first time, as well as shelves, tables and, of course, chairs. One big shift came in 2000 when the firm began buying and processing its wood in Croatia, at a plant near the forests where it's cut. Calligaris switched some of the upholstery work to Bosnia, where wages are one-tenth of those in Italy. And he has put a relentless focus on making his own branded products rather than manufacturing for other companies. In 1997, 35% of the firm's output...
...close in Torino. Olympic rookies Erik Guay, Kelly VanderBeek and Francois Bourque settled for fourth; Genevieve Simard was fifth. Guay, 24, skied on a gimpy knee and missed bronze by 0.1 sec. in the super-G. "Fourth place is the worst," he said. "I'll be thinking about that one-tenth of a second for the next four years." So will VanderBeek, 23, who missed the Ladies' super-G podium...
...Putin insists that he is merely pursuing his nation's best interests. And he can claim some success: growth is a robust 6%; foreign debt has been slashed to one-tenth of what it was (as a percentage of the total Russian economy) six years ago; and, like Norway, the nation has been stashing away a part of its oil revenues in a "stabilization fund" that can be tapped in the future if oil prices drop sharply, causing a shortfall in the state budget. Putin also argues that, as the world's top natural-gas exporter and a leading...
...Engell, Harvard offered public speaking courses up until the 1970s. He says he is unsure why such courses have ceased to be part of the curriculum. Although he teaches a rhetoric course, English 34, “Elements of Rhetoric,” he says that only approximately one-tenth of the course is devoted to public speaking, with the rest focusing on the history and theory of classical rhetoric.Nancy Houfek, the Head of Voice and Speech at the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training also says she believes that the College should train its students in public speaking. Houfek...